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Retronauts Episode 136: Shantae (in her creator's words)

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Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

As part of our ongoing developer interview series, Shantae creator Matt Bozon recounts the history and challenges involved in designing indie darling Shantae. From the game's Super NES prototype to the recent Half-Genie Hero add-on Friends to the End, that's almost three decades of exploratory belly-dancing!

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0:00.0

This week in RetroNots we are Ret2Go.

0:02.0

Everyone welcome to an on-site on location episode of RetroNots I'm Jeremy

0:29.7

Perish and this week it's an episode that I've been wanting to do for a long time.

0:34.5

A look at the Chante series and rather than sitting around with a bunch of

0:38.5

bozos in a studio I've taken the podcast down to Santa Clarita or

0:43.7

Valencia. Where are you guys based? Yeah Valencia.

0:46.1

We're in Valencia, California but Santa Clarita it's kind of the same thing.

0:50.3

And I'm talking to introduce yourself. Hey my name is Matt Bozon. I'm the

0:55.7

series director for Chante. So yes I am at the way forward offices and we're

1:02.9

going to talk about Chante not just the outsider perspective but the

1:06.8

inside perspective the the lowdown on how this series came to be and how it

1:12.7

kind of came into the world as a sort of retro facing series. So I feel like

1:19.3

from the moment of conception Chante was was immediately eligible for

1:23.7

RetroNots but you know another series is like 15 years old so of course it's

1:27.6

totally eligible at this point but it feels like a series very heavily

1:32.2

informed by classic gaming and classic concepts so yeah it just seems like a

1:39.2

perfect fit for for our show. Well yeah thank you thanks for coming out and

1:44.2

taking your time and thank you guys for listening that's really cool. So yeah

1:49.0

what exactly has your role been with Chante? You're kind of like Chante's dad.

1:53.1

Yeah so let's see you boy. So when we when we created this thing it was Aaron

2:00.9

Bozon who's my wife at the time we were engaged and we're both animation

2:07.4

students out of Cal Arts. So I think the way this all came about was her

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